Lieven Hendriks

1970
Velp, NL

2024 - Mirages, BUG 2 Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan

2023 - Mirages, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany

2022 - Mirages, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn

2021 - Mirrors/Mirages, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam

2020 - Lieven Hendriks, Galerie Sturm & Schober, Vienna, Austria

Group exhibitions

2024 - Pollination, Yun Fei Fan Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

- True Colors, Kunstmuseum Den Haag

- No Place/ Fenestria, Galerie Sator, Komunuma, Parijs, France

- In Focus, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

- Daily Encounters, Museum Helmond

Public collections (selection)

Collectie Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Netherlands), Collectie Museum Voorlinden (Netherlands), Centraal Museum (Utrecht), Dordrechts Museum (Netherlands), Museum Stadsgalerij / Schunck* Heerlen (Netherlands), CODA Museum (Apeldoorn), ESMOA, El Segundo Museum of Art, Brian Sweeney Collection (Los Angeles, USA), Fine Art Collectie de Groen (Arnhem), Volksbank (Offenburg, Germany), AKZO Nobel Art Foundation (Netherlands), Rabobank Art Collection (Netherlands), ING Bank, Art Collection (Netherlands), De Nederlandsche Bank Art Collection (Netherlands), AMC Art Collection (Netherlands), UMC Art Collection (Netherlands), Provincie Gelderland Art Collection (Netherlands), The Council of Skåne (Sweden), Collection NUA, Nagoya University of Arts (Japan)

Private collections (selection)

Jos Koster Art Foundation (Netherlands), De Heus Art Collection (Netherlands), Lakeside Collection (Netherlands), Collection Eric Decelle (Brussels, Belgium), Collection Adrian Koerfer (Bad Homburg, Germany), Hickey collection (Rovereto, Italy), Ron Klein Breteler collection (Netherlands), Peter van Beveren collection (Netherlands), Jeroen Princen collection (Netherlands), Marieke Sanders collection (Netherlands), Hans en Marijke van der Made Collection (Netherlands), Jeanette and Carl Palmstierna (Stockholm, Sweden), Ulla Seidel Groth (Stockholm, Sweden)

Private collections in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, UK, Mexico, Peru, Colombia

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Lieven Hendriks(1970) takes everyday subjects in which the human touch is visible as a starting point for his work. For example, he paints nails in walls, stars and vases cut out of paper, and finger drawings on foggy windows. By using trompe l’oeil effects, his flat canvases appear as loosely stretched linens, deceiving the eyes of the viewer. In his work, Lieven Hendriks, plays a game with the nature of observation. His paintings anticipate how we look at art, how we focus our attention, and how this process is affected by surrounding circumstances. In this way, his work touches directly on the essence of painting and the value attached to it.

Creating hyperreal illusions requires mastery of one’s technique. When seeking to deceive his audience, Hendriks pulls out all the stops to make his work absolutely lifelike. Nothing is allowed to interfere with the illusion. For the artist, painting amounts first and foremost to a conscious demonstration of the highest professional skill. He uses his technical virtuosity to make the viewer think about the way we are used to look at paintings. Although his images seem to be crystal clear at first, they actually make us doubt through their ambiguity.

Lieven Hendriks (1970) studied at the HKU in Utrecht and was a resident at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. His work is part of many renowned international collections, including Museum Voorlinden, ESMoA Los Angeles, and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.

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